Aquaducts: Man made tunnels carrying water from place to place

• One of Rome's greater accomplishments
• Purpose was to carry water to dryer area's
• Made of stone, bricks, concrete
• Carried water to fountains, latrine's, baths, pools, etc.

• Mostly used for movement of troops in the Roman army
• Romans learned to make roads from the Etruscans in Italy
• Went up to 5 feet high, 50 feet wide at its largest
• Most large ones were 40 feet wide, and smaller ones were usually 8 feet wide
• Used limestone and slabs of lava to create some roads
• Other materials mostly used were: flint, broken stones, rough concrete, gravel
• First road was known as the "Queen of Roads"
• Romans wanted their roads as straight as possible to avoid carts going offtrack

• Most men fought with spears
• They couldnt fight with swords unless they were wealthy
• You were longer term soldiers if you knew how to use the weapons well
• Men in the front carried thrusting spears
• Men in the middle and back carried throwing spears
• All men carried back up thrusting swords

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